The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-04-14

A car load of McCormick's latest
improved mowers and self binders ar
rived here this week.-.Sahsbuy
Watchnaou
A block of mica was recently dis
covered in jackson county. measuring
26 by 36 inches and 10 inches thick
and weighing 900 pounds-Ne,gton
/ Enterprise.
1t is estimated that the daily output
of the mills situated on Pungo and
Pamlico rivers, when they run their
full capacity, is over 25O.0OO feet. Of
timber Washington Gazette.
Parties in Raleigh will build horse
car railroad across Bogue beach. from
the landing on the sound This will
add greatly to the many new attrac-
tions of the Atlantic Hotel the coming
season. Weekly Record
We are informed that on. the old
Meyers plantation there is vessel
fully IS feet long, which is buried in
the mud ten miles from the Chowan
and nine from the Cashie river
Windsor Public Ledger
A survey Of the Cape Fear & Yad.
kin Valley Railroad from Milboro to
Asheboro has been ordered. Randolph
county is in high glee over the pres
pect of railroad extension, which
may ultimately work through Ashe-
boro to Troy and Wadesboro.-North
State
On Tuesday, March 10Th. young
white man named Davie PAYNE was
drowned in Haw river at Cedar Cliff,
while attempting to cross the stream
in boat His body floated down the
stream and was found in the mill pond
at Cedar Cliff last Saturday afternoon
about 4 o'clock Orange County d.
seTUeI. ..
If there is any patriotism IN bal
loting, the citizens of Winston town
ship will be given an unusual number
Of opportunities to display this virtue
during the next few months There
is the Railroad election, April l4th..
Municipal elections lst~ Monday in
May; Local Option election June 9th.
-Union Republican.
Mr.. F. H. Fries, of Salem, has
among his numerous collections of
curiosities and mementos of recent
pleasure trip to foreign lands a copper
cent, partially imbedded in lava, which
was so surrounded in his presence,
while standing near the crater of Mt.
Versuvius, with the burning, seething
lava flowing at his feet Winston Re
publican.
1t is estimated by those who are in
position to know, that not over half of
the years tobacco crop has yet been
The sale of commercial fer
tilizers here this season is as nothing
compared with that of past seasons.
The farmers, during the fall winter
and spring, have made more compost
some with and some without the use
of acid-than they ever made before.
-.StotesuiUe Londmark
We hear that a mans house and
farm is to be sold at the court house
soon under mortgage for debt of
seven dollars.-A letter has been
received from Gen. Joseph E. John
ston, in which he signifies his inten-
tion of being here on the occasion of
the unveiling of the Confederate
monument on the 10th of May. How
ever he will not deliver the address,
as his business engagements are such
as does not allow him sufficient spare
time to prepare suitable address for
the occasion. Senator Vance has been
invited and will doubtless deliver the
address .Smithfeld Herald.
Mr.. John Carter. near Wentworth.
has two turkey hens which he says lay
three eggs each every day.-The
peaches, if not all killed, are SO badly
burned by the frost that it is thought
they will drop off before they mature.
A drunken man would be quite
show on our streets, and would create
as much excitement as dog fight.
The farmers who have visited our
Office the past week all agree that to-
bacco plants are destroyed. No great
preparation, they say, as heretofore
has been made, and even if every
thing had been favorable there would
not have been the usual quantity; but
now the prospect for any crop seems
to be cut off, as the plants are dead.
-LeakriUe Echo. rs